With leadership renewal one of the fundamental components to a building a solid union, the PUBEU recently held its 3rd Delegates’ Conference on 10 March 2016 at the Concorde Hotel.
The conference was attended by PUBEU delegates, management partners, NTUC Central Committee members and officials from various unions.
With union General Secretary Lim Ser Puang flowing on, the quadrennial conference saw delegates Eunice Mok, Abdul Wahid and Ow Peng Fei voted in for three Executive Committee positions.
The line-up of the new 21-member Executive Committee will be determined on 17 March 2016.
Forward Planning
Guest-of-honour NTUC Secretary-General (SG) Chan Chun Sing congratulated PUB and its workers for having done well in catering to Singapore’s water needs, and challenged both PUB and PUBEU to continue being a shining light for workers in the future.
He cited how PUB led by example in breaking down the divide between the rank and file workers and the PMEs (Professionals, Managers, and Executives) through better staff integration.
“Singapore works on the basis of meritocracy. We want to give every worker in PUB every right to succeed in life so long as they work hard; this is the ethos that our country was founded on,” said SG Chan.
He also called on PUB and the union to continue passing down the values of having a strong labour management relationship down the road.
“We are not satisfied just to have strong labour management relationship now, we want the next generation of leaders to have the same values, the same cooperative relationship to work together. It is the collective responsibility for both the management and the union leadership to make sure that we develop the next generation of tripartite partners,” he said.
